This textbook explores sustainability climate change and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives including the challenges risks and opportunities of ESG policies energy and environmental science economics and philosophy and sound public and private sector management There is no intergenerational issue that is more pressing than the challenge of sustainability and climate change It is a concern that will only worsen within any reader’s lifetime especially if we fail to act At the same time there is growing concern among corporations arising from the Environment Social and Governance ESG paradigm that includes climate risk future profits and stakeholder expectations Many of our leading institutions also increasingly acknowledge a responsibility for corporate decisions since the onset of the Industrial Revolution that plays no small role in bringing us to the existential precipice of our day This book provides necessary tools of sufficient sophistication to address complex intergenerational issues such as global warming economic justice and fairness appropriate intergenerational planning sustainable finance corporate risk management and governance The book offers a vital resource for students shareholders sustainability practitioners agencies and advocates interested in climate action intergenerational accountability and economic sustainability
